The Caracunan
aristocrat always fires low--the first time.
Shortly thereafter, Miss Polly Brewster appeared upon the balcony
of the American Legation, and performed an illegal act. Upon a day
not designated as a Caracunan national holiday, she raised the
flag of an alien nation and fixed it, and the gilded youth of
Caracuna in the street below cheered, not the flag, which would
have been unpatriotic, but the flag-raiser, which was but gallant,
until they were hoarse and parched of throat.
XI
PRESTO CHANGE
After the battle, Miss Brewster reviewed her troops, and took
stock of casualties, in the patio. None of the allied forces had
come off scatheless. Galpy, whose injuries had at first seemed the
most severe, responded to a stiff dose of brandy. A cut across the
scientist's head had been hastily bandaged in a towel, giving him,
as he observed, the appearance of a dissipated Hindu. To Von
Plaanden's indignant disgust, his military splendor was seriously
impaired by a huge "hickey" over his left eye, the memento of a
well-aimed rock. Cluff had broken a finger and sprained his wrist.
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